What's the strangest parcel you ever received in the mail? I'll bet it doesn't compare to a 48 1/2 pound four year old girl named May Pierstorff.
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May's parents decided to send their daughter for a visit with her grandparents, but were reluctant to pay the train fare. Noticing that there were no provisions in the parcel post regulations specifically concerning sending a person through the mails, they decided to "mail" their daughter. The postage, 53-cents in parcel post stamps, was attached to May's coat. This little girl traveled the entire distance to Lewiston in the train's mail compartment and was delivered to her grandmother's home by the mail clerk on duty, Leonard Mochel.
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I don't know about her, but if that happened to me as a kid, I would have loved every minute of it.
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The story's told in a children's book called "Mailing May."
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Wonder if she was pissed off?
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She's lucky it didn't end like 'The Gift' by The Velvet Underground!
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Did her grandparents dodge the fee by just returning the parcel back to sender?
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stonerindiekid;I thought the same thing!
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I wonder what would happen if you'd try this today? Probably something very bad.
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Leonard Mochel from Lewiston was my great uncle.
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